Health Care Support Worker (Schools)

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to join our Torfaen School Nursing Team, working 30 hours per week, all year round.

This role is to work under the supervision of the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) by contributing to the delivery of the Healthy Child Wales Programme, Child Measurement Programme, Vision Screening programme within the allocated teams/ boroughs and supporting the school based immunisation programme Gwent wide.

It is desirable that the successful candidate has experience of working in a similar role, however, full training will be given.  Experience of working with children and /or community experience is also an advantage.

The successful candidate must be flexible to the needs of the service and able to meet the geographical defines of the role.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the school nursing service you will be required to work in a variety of community settings in order to provide both clerical support as well as assigned clinical tasks involving direct contact with and care of school age children under the direction of the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) and other qualified staff.

For main duties please refer to the job description attached.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.